Bøger af Karina Lykke Grand

Katalog og bogværk udgivet i forbindelse med udstillingen Dansk Guldålder på Nationalmuseum Stockholm (28. februar – 21. juli 2019) og Dansk guldalder. Verdenskunst mellem to katastrofer på SMK (24. august- 8. december 2019) inkl. fuld værkfortegnelse. Værket består af 20 artikler forfattet af fremtrædende svenske og danske kunsthistoriker, der her fremlægger de senere års reviderede og kritiske forskning i en af de mest populære perioder i dansk kunst. Forskningen suppleres med viden og indsigter opstået i den redaktionelle og kuratoriske proces omkring både bog og udstilling i Stockholm og København. Således indledes bogen med en omfattende oversigtsartikel om perioden af Karina Lykke Grand (AU), hvor den traditionelle, mere idealiserende fortælling og de tematiseringer, man typiske præsenteres for (”Det nye borgerskab”, ”Kunstakademiet”, ”Familieliv” mm.) uddybes og udfordres af en række nye læsninger og perspektiver. De øvrige artikler i bogen behandler og uddyber de problemstillinger, hovedartiklen opridser, og naturligvis også de temaer, man præsenteres for i udstillingen. Periodens udstrækning bliver diskuteret, men også hidtil underbelyste emner i kunsthistorien som tidens kvindelige kunstnere, kolonialisme, resultater af den helt nye tekniske kunsthistorie, den demokratiske revolution, nationalisme vs. internationalisme, teknologi, skandinavismen og de danske kunstnere i Sverige. Ikke mindst er der fokus på de mange kunstnere, der har været skrevet ud af den vedtagne kanon, ikke af kvalitetsmæssige, men af dybest set real- eller identitetspolitiske årsager. Bogen har som udstillingen en art kronologisk-rumlig opbygning, så man følger kunstens faglige udvikling og geografiske bevægelser mellem 1800 og 1860. En udvikling som selvfølgelig ikke kan betragtes isoleret, som kunsthistorien nok har haft tilbøjelighed til, men skal forstås som tæt sammenvævet med en lang række samfundsmæssige forhold og forandringer. Derudover finder man et forord ved NM’s og SMK’s museumsdirektører, en kuratorisk introduktion til udstillings-samarbejdet samt et appendiks med værkfortegnelse, omfattende bibliografi og fyldige kunstnerbiografier over de udstillende kunstnere, Bogen er rigt illustreret med ca. 350 billeder og fotografier.****** ’Et mirakel af et katalog’ Berlingske***** ’Nuanceret og indsigtsfuldt’ Kristeligt Dagblad♥♥♥♥ ’De 278 værker er smukt gengivet’ Politiken

Maleren P.C. Skovgaard (1817-1875) var en af guldalderens og nationalromantikkens væsentligste kunstnere. Han arbejdede nært sammen med tidens største kulturpersonligheder, og både hans landskabsmalerier og intime portrætter gjorde ham til en af landets mest efterspurgte kunstnere.At en så betydningsfuld kunstner ikke tidligere er blevet udsat for gennemgribende studier, kan kun vække forundring. P.C. Skovgaard - Dansk guldalder revurderet gør det nu muligt at genopdage denne maler, hvis værker udgør en uundværlig del af det danmarksbillede, der stadig dominerer vores kultur og selvopfattelse: Hos Skovgaard blev bøgeskoven cementeret som nationalt klenodie. Bogen går dog et skridt videre og præsenterer mindre kendte sider af hans virke: Skovgaard rejste ud over landets grænser og lod sig inspirere af såvel tysk romantik som fremmedartede landskaber i Italien, Sverige, England og Frankrig - ligesom han eksperimenterede med at krydse kunstnerisk sensibilitet og et naturvidenskabeligt blik på verden.Antologiens 13 bidrag er skrevet af danske og internationale eksperter, som hver især fordyber sig i Skovgaards liv, kunst og rejser - hvor periodens kulturelle og politisk urolige klima spillede en afgørende rolle. Tilsammen genoptegner de Danmarks kunstneriske landskab i midten af 1800-tallet og indplacerer Skovgaard som et af dets højdepunkter.

Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture. But what we regard as distinctive today in our cultural heritage or day-to-day cultural experience is deeply rooted in the rich diversity of the national currents of the nineteenth century. Culture and Conflict: Nation-Building in Denmark and Scandinavia, 1800–1930 explores the many strands of Danish and Scandinavian culture that helped to shape these cultural identities.The sixteen contributions in this volume analyse how competing national agendas influenced the development of political life as well as literature, the visual arts, and music. A central theme is the cultural conflicts that formed an essential part of nineteenth-century nation-building. Culturally as well as politically, boundaries were drawn up, ideologies were formulated and discussed, and determined attempts were made to suppress divergent cultural voices in the drive to forge strong national or Scandinavian narratives. The results of these conflicts were the enduring cultural struggles that form the subject of this volume.The contributions at hand, by scholars from Denmark, Britain, Norway, the United States, and Germany, bring a broad and interdisciplinary perspective to bear on these distinctively Nordic themes. Aimed both at students and at established scholars, the chapters discuss the many facets of nationalism, its cultures, and its countercultures, as well as revisiting the historiography of the 1800–1930 period with a more pluralistic approach.

Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture. But what we regard as distinctive today in our cultural heritage or day-to-day cultural experience is deeply rooted in the rich diversity of the national currents of the nineteenth century. Culture and Conflict: Nation-Building in Denmark and Scandinavia, 1800–1930 explores the many strands of Danish and Scandinavian culture that helped to shape these cultural identities.The sixteen contributions in this volume analyse how competing national agendas influenced the development of political life as well as literature, the visual arts, and music. A central theme is the cultural conflicts that formed an essential part of nineteenth-century nation-building. Culturally as well as politically, boundaries were drawn up, ideologies were formulated and discussed, and determined attempts were made to suppress divergent cultural voices in the drive to forge strong national or Scandinavian narratives. The results of these conflicts were the enduring cultural struggles that form the subject of this volume.The contributions at hand, by scholars from Denmark, Britain, Norway, the United States, and Germany, bring a broad and interdisciplinary perspective to bear on these distinctively Nordic themes. Aimed both at students and at established scholars, the chapters discuss the many facets of nationalism, its cultures, and its countercultures, as well as revisiting the historiography of the 1800–1930 period with a more pluralistic approach.

The catalogue was published in connection with the exhibition The Danish Golden Age World-Class Art Between Disasters at The National at National Museum Stockholm (28th February - 21st July 2019) and the National Gallery of Denmark (24th August - 8th December 2019). The catalogue includes 20 articles by prominent Swedish and Danish art historians, who present the most recent academic research on one of the most popular eras in Danish art history. The research is supplemented with knowledge and insight gained in the editorial and curatorial process of both the book and the exhibition in Stockholm and Copenhagen. Thus, the book is introduced by a comprehensive overview article about the period by Karina Lykke Grand (University of Aarhus), which elaborates on the traditional, more idealised, narrative and the thematics that are typically presented in connection to the Danish Golden Age. Family life, citizenship, the Danish Art Academy, etc. are elaborated and challenged by various new readings and perspectives. How far the Danish Golden Age stretches is discussed, as well as, more undiscussed topics in art history, such as the female artists of the Danish Golden Age, colonialism the results of the new technical art history, the democratic revolution, nationalism versus internationalism, technology, Scandinavianism and Danish artists in Sweden. In addition, the catalogue focuses on the many artists who have been written out of the approved canon, not for lack of quality, but for reasons of realpolitik or identity politics. The catalogue, as well as the exhibition, has a chronological-spacial set up so that we follow the technical development and geographic movement between 1800 and 1860. This development can of course not be considered isolated, like art history has been inclined to do, but must be understood as closely interwoven with a wide range of societal conditions and changes. The catalogue is richly illustrated with approximately 350 paintings and photographies